Author: De Wet Potgieter

De Wet Potgieter”s productive and sometimes controversial career as a journalist started in 1975, shortly before the Soweto riots and South Africa”s invasion of Angola. Initially he worked as a military correspondent and crime reporter for several newspapers. In 1988 he was appointed as an investigative journalist by the Sunday Times. He worked there for seven years before moving to Rapport, where he delivered front-page stories for 11 years. A number of sensational books have appeared from his pen in which facts stranger than fiction have been revealed. Among them are Contraband, South Africa and the International trade in Ivory and Rhino Horn, Total Onslaught: Apartheid”s Dirty Tricks Revealed, Kwart voor “n bloedbad and Black Widow White Widow. In the latter he lifted the veil on Al Qaeda”s activities in South Africa. He also regularly conducts extensive investigations into international criminal syndicates. Potgieter lives in Centurion and, after more than 40 years, is still writing full steam.